What is the point (half-joking)

Sometimes, I think it would be easier for a non-native English speaker to learn English than it would for an English speaker to learn another language, just because of motivation. Everyone wants to learn English, because it's the standard. Most things in this world are written in English, and just about everywhere you go outside of the official English language world, children are taught both their native language as well as English.

If you've been raised with the standard, however, you can't justify wanting to learn another language with "everything is in it." With this said, I'd like to learn a new language, but I'm having trouble trying to decide what I could get the most use out of. I have a fairly tight grasp of my native English, so I'm sure I could wrap my head around another language, if I gave it enough time. It's just the decision part that's holding me back here.

So, what language might you recommend and why? A language with some interesting writers? A neat country to live in? Just the beauty or simplicity of the language itself? Any reason you can find for me to learn a specific language, I'll listen.


Oh, and before someone points this out to me, I understand that it's possible to learn a language just for the fun of it, not for any particular use. I'd guess that most so-called ``language geeks'' feel this way. I am interested in languages and the differences between them, it's just that my time alive is limited, and there are many other interesting things begging for my time, that's all. If I had another lifetime or two to spare, I'd learn every language ever used, but that's just idle daydreaming...

Learn to speak beaner.

>>2

why?

By learning a foreign language you forge the key to a new culture.
You see the world from the perspective of the native speakers, discover new tastes, new lifestyles, new books, new shows, new musics etc.
Taking you have no interest in it for career opportunities: the point is to get what they say in their moonspeak and expand your world to another.

Cool langs to learn, organizated in reasons (so I repeat some):

Mandarin, Japanese - for Indoeuropean (English, German, Russian, Spanish...) natives. It opens your mind, since it's SO different from your lang that you need to relearn to think in that lang.

Greek, Latin, Arabic - access to Classic literature. Those guys wrote great things, and translations are just pale near the originals. (YES: Arabic is a classical language, for me.)

Mandarin, Spanish, German, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese - plus English, you can essentially go ANYWHERE with only 7 langs.

German and Latin - for philosophyfags. Latin, in this case, is better than Greek: Greek works are translated in Latin, but Latin works aren't in Greek.

Quechua, Tsalagi, Guaraní, Língua Geral - if you like amerindian languages, these four resume pretty much.

French - if you want to call yourself "civilized", learn French.

Occitan, Provençal, Gascon - if you call yourself "civilized" but want to piss with the Frogs.

Mongolian, Hungary, Turkic - if you want to know who humanoids think.

>>3
to speak to beaners

>>3
and so you can spam like >>4

ポイントはないのです。

One thing I like doing is reading translated works and compare it with the original and look for the things that are lost in translation. It's also interesting how sometimes there's just no way to express something in a certain language.

>>4,9

One day, I'll get >>15, and show you bots who's boss.

人 ニン、ジン、ひと
入 ニュウ、はい（る）、い（る）
力 リキ、リョク、ちから
下 カ、した
千 セン
上 ジョウ、うえ
口 コウ、くち
土 ド、つち
夕 ユウ
大 ダイ、タイ、おお（きい）
女 ジョ、おんな
子 シ、ズ、こ
小 ショウ、ちい（さい）
山 サン、やま
川 かわ
天 テン、あま
中 チュウ、なか
円 エン、まる（い）
手 シュ、て
文 ブン、モン、ふみ
日 ニチ、ジツ、ひ
月 ゲツ、ガツ、つき
木 モク、き
水 スイ、みず
火 カ、ひ
犬 ケン、いぬ
王 オウ
正 ショウ、ただ（しい）
出 シュツ、で（る）、だ（す）
本 ホン、もと
右 ユウ、みぎ
左 サ、ひだり
玉 たま
生 ショウ、セイ
田 デン、た
白 ハク、しろ
目 モク、め
石 セキ、いし
立 リツ、た（つ）
百 バイ、ひゃく
年 ネン、とし
休 キュウ、やす（む）
先 セン、さき
名 メイ、ミョウ、な
字 ジ
早 ソウ、はや（い）
気 き
竹 チク、たけ
糸 シ、いと
耳 ジ、みみ
虫 むし
村 ソン、むら
男 ナン、おとこ
町 まち
花 カ、はな
見 ケン、み（る）
貝 カイ
赤 セイ、あか
足 ソウ、あし
車 シャ、くるま
学 ガク、まな（ぶ）
林 リン、はやし
空 クウ、そら
金 キン、かね
雨 あま、あめ
青 ジョウ、あお
草 くさ
音 オン、おと
校 コウ
森 もり

>>1 pues decir chistes a la mitad que mas!

>>15

STACK OVERFLOW

貝 カイ
this is kun-yomi reading

>>17
who cares, it's not like a human being can learn to speak japanese anyway

>Everyone wants to learn English, because it's the standard.

I would rather say "Everyone is brainwashed about 'hurr durr English world language'."

>>16
BEANER OVERFLOW

>>15
Αλ, ι΄Μ ϲμϼϼεητΙγ ςτμδγιηφ τλε Ιαηφμαφε οϝ τλε βεαηεϼϛ οη Μγ οωη.

>>21

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